TORY BEN MAKES A JINGLE BELLES BOOB

A TORY MSP has made a festive boob - by sending a Christmas card email of topless women whose breasts sway to the sound of a Max Bygraves tune.

Ben Wallace, who represents North-East Scotland in the Scottish Parliament, sent the greeting called Jingle Boobs to his work colleagues.

The email shows five women in stockings unwrapping presents to the strains of Bygraves's 1959 Christmas hit Jingle Bell Rock. The message that accompanies the image reads: "After much deliberation over what style of Christmas card to send out, especially bearing in mind the current Blair card, I have settled on the attached.

"A very merry Christmas to you all. Ben Wallace."

It is unclear how many of the former Scots Guard major's friends have so far seen the email message. A Tory spokesman said: "It was a modern-day saucy seaside postcard done in the tones of our best- loved comedians such as Les Dawson. It was for private consumption, not public consumption.

"It was what Ben Wallace thought was a light-hearted Christmas card purely to be seen within the group."

News of the email comes in the same week shadow health secretary Liam Fox apologised after telling a sexist and racist joke about the Spice Girls at a Christmas party.

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